Human rights and the refugee definition : comparative legal practice and theory / edited by Bruce Burson and David James Cantor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burson, Bruce, editor.

Cantor, David James, editor.

Series:

International refugee law series ; Volume 5.

International Refugee Law Series, 2213-3836 ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc--Congresses.

Refugees.

International law and human rights--Congresses.

International law and human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (427 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Nijhoff, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Does human rights law help us to define who qualifies as a refugee? If so, then how? These deceptively simple questions sit at the heart of an intense contemporary debate over whether, or how, interpretation of the refugee definition in the Refugee Convention should take account of human rights law. In Human Rights and the Refugee Definition , Burson and Cantor bring a fine-grained comparative perspective to this debate. For the first time, they collect together in one edited volume over a dozen new studies by leading scholars and practitioners that explore in detail how these legal dynamics play out in a range of national and international jurisdictions and in relation to particular thematic challenges in refugee law.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Bruce Burson and David James Cantor

Introduction: Interpreting the Refugee Definition via Human Rights Standards / Bruce Burson and David James Cantor

Give Way to the Right: The Evolving Use of Human Rights in New Zealand Refugee Status Determination / Bruce Burson

Island Nation: The Impact of International Human Rights Law on Australian Refugee Law / Linda J. Kirk

The Human Rights Bases of Refugee Protection in Canada / James C. Simeon

International Human Rights and us Refugee Law: Synergies and Contradictions / Deborah Anker and Josh Vittor

International Human Rights and Refugee Law: The United Kingdom / Raza Husain

Refugee Law Jurisprudence from Germany and Human Rights: Cutting Edge or Chilling Effect? / Roland Bank

The Search for the Outer Edges of Non-refoulement in Europe: Exceptionality and Flagrant Breaches / Cathryn Costello

Human Rights in Refugee Protection in Brazil / Liliana Lyra Jubilut , Camila Sombra Muiños de Andrade and Camila Marques Gilberto

Economic Migrant or Person in Need of Protection? Socio-Economic Rights and Persecution in International Refugee Law / Michelle Foster

An Enabling Interpretation of the Refugee Convention: Determination of Refugee Status in Light of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities / Andreas Dimopoulos

The Right to Refugee Status and the Internal Protection Alternative: What Does the Law Say? / Jessica Schultz and Terje Einarsen

[En]gendering International Refugee Protection: Are We There Yet? / Heaven Crawley

Defining Refugees: Persecution, Surrogacy and the Human Rights Paradigm / David James Cantor

Selected Bibliography / Bruce Burson and David James Cantor

Index / Bruce Burson and David James Cantor.

Notes:

Includes papers presented as a conference in November 2013.--ECIP acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28859-7

OCLC:

933219213

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004288591 DOI